Fittings Multimedia Arts, Sounds of Progress and Tron Theatre
Present
Raspberry
Raspberry, written by award winning playwright Garry Robson, opens at the Tron Theatre Glasgow on Wednesday 31 March at 7.30pm and plays until Saturday 3 April. The production then moves to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Dundee Rep before setting off on a major tour of England from Liverpool to Taunton to Croydon.
Raspberry is a juicily gothic piece of music theatre, which muses on the idea of perfection and perfectability. Inspired by the life and times of Ian Dury Raspberry was first performed as work in progress as part of Oran Mor's hugely successful A Play, A Pie and a Pint series in Glasgow by Sounds of Progress in collaboration with Fittings
Oi Oi!
In a small wee town where tin was shaped and forged, a blacksmith had a daughter just like him. And just like her Dad, Rita was a bit different.
Now as far as the blacksmith was concerned this was a cosmic joke to far, so he set about changing things. Coz tin was his game, within which he'd achieved a modicum of fame, he tried to bend and shape her like a Uri Geller spoon.
And that's how it would have gone on if Spasticus and Ray and their band of dirty angels hadn't come along and changed just about everything......
Oi Oi!
Raspberry will be Fittings new touring show in 2010
The show is directed by Gordon Dougall, music and additional lyrics are by Leigh Stirling, with arrangements by Sally Clay and features art and design by Keith McIntyre. Members of the cast include Garry Robson (Spasticus), Christine Bruno (Rita), Sally Clay (Ray), Jem Dobbs (Dad) and David 'Stickman' Higgins (Albert Einstein).
".....is driven along by half-a-dozen wild and cracking songs, superbly sung. And you only have to glance at the strength and conviction of the three central performances ...to know that Robson has struck a rich seam of theatrical energy, with talent to burn." - Joyce MacMillan, The Scotsman.
